Poem-a-Day

Poem-a-Day is the original, daily poetry series featuring new poems by today’s poets. Produced by the Academy of American Poets, this free digital series is made possible by you, our readers and listeners. Theme music by Kat Rejsek. Audio engineering by Thea Matthews. Learn more about Poem-a-Day and, if you can, please consider supporting this series by making a gift at poets.org/give.

Books
251
Puma Perl: "Domino Nights"
3 min
252
Carmen Bardeguez-Brown: "Rican Issues"
5 min
253
Jesús Papoleto Meléndez: "In a Grain of Sand"
4 min
254
Ed Morales: "The Talking Coconut"
3 min
255
Tennessee Reed: "Fantasy"
3 min
256
Rainer Maria Rilke: "Lament"
3 min
257
Mary Carolyn Davies: "A Casualty List"
4 min
258
Ammiel Alcalay: "My Apologies"
2 min
259
Emanuel Xavier: "How Some of Us Survived Cuando...
2 min
260
Adrian Castro: "A Cuban Modernist in Miami"
2 min
261
Ishmael Reed: "A Black Genius"
2 min
262
Felix Cortes: "In the Beginning, There was the ...
5 min
263
Emily Dickinson: "As if some little Arctic flower"
2 min
264
Guest Editor Interview: December 2024 Guest Edi...
10 min
265
Emily Pauline Johnson: "A Cry from an Indian Wife"
6 min
266
Lance Henson: "Untitled"
1 min
267
Luci Tapahonso: "Wooden Window Frames"
5 min
268
Elizabeth Woody: "Meetings"
3 min
269
Ofelia Zepeda: "The Home of the Sacred"
2 min
270
Max Early: "Delayza’s Necklace"
3 min
271
Charles G. Eastman: "The Yellow Corn"
3 min
272
Frances Sargent Osgood: "Thank God, I Glory in ...
4 min
273
Kimberly Blaeser: "I was built by inherited hun...
4 min
274
Annie Wenstrup: "As Girl"
3 min
275
Kenyatta Rogers: "Ars Poetica"
2 min